Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy's newly expanded version of how he came to be photographed naked on his stoop shortly before the November 2004 special election insults Hispanics, the mayor's political opponents say.

When the incident initially occurred, Healy told The New York Times that he had been drinking and couldn't remember how he ended up on his stoop naked. A spokeswoman for the mayor told The Jersey Journal at the time that Healy heard a commotion outside, went to investigate, and someone snapped a photo.

The girls pulled the towel off of him and he "started laughing," Healy tells Moran.
But then the mayor adds that the girls "started doing other stuff."

"It was filthy," the mayor says. "I chased them away and I just sat down." That's when a political enemy supposedly snapped his photo.

Healy's main rival in the upcoming May 14 election, Councilman Steven Fulop, said the mayor's comments are embarrassing.

"It's another embarrassment in a statewide newspaper courtesy of Jerry Healy and it's sad that 10 years after the fact, he now decides to blame Hispanic women for his personal problems."

Nidia Lopez, who is running for reelection in Ward C on Fulop's ticket, said the mayor's comments made her "absolutely sick."

"I think the Hispanic community deserves an apology and I think our mayor needs psychological help ... For this mayor to degrade Hispanic women by creating this wild story eight years later ... three young kids molested him, he's laughing about it. How the hell did he know they were Hispanic?"

"When I ran in 2009, I asked him if that was really him on the stoop, and he said, 'I don't know baby. I was so drunk I don't remember.' Those were his exact words to me .... There is absolutely something wrong with this picture."